Lynn Laverty Elsenhans is a businessperson who is the former chairperson, chief executive officer, and president of
Sunoco
Sunoco LP is an American master limited partnership organized under Delaware General Corporation Law, Delaware state law and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Dating back to 1886, the company has transformed from a vertically integrated energy ...
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Career
Lynn Elsenhans served as the Sunoco's chairperson and as the company's chief executive officer and president until 2012. Since October 2008, she is also the chairwoman of Sunoco Partners LLC.
[ Prior to joining Sunoco, Elsenhans served as the executive vice president of global manufacturing for Shell Downstream Inc., a subsidiary of ]Royal Dutch Shell
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company, headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New ...
Group for more than 28 years.
Elsenhans also served on Baker Hughes's board of directors from 2012 to July 2017 and currently sits on the board of GlaxoSmithKline.
In April 2018, she was the first woman to be appointed as board member in the state-run Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco ( ') or Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. , it is the fourth- l ...
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Elsenhans was voted number 10 on Forbes' 2009 "The 100 Most Powerful Women" list.
Compensation
While CEO of Sunoco in 2008, Elsenhans earned a total compensation of $12,062,024, which included a base salary of $515,077, a cash bonus of $794,007, stock granted of $8,313,716, and options granted of $2,265,934.
Education
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans received a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
Rice University comp ...
. She played on Rice's first women's basketball team. However, the team went 0–11 in its first season. She donated $5 million to start the university's women's golf program slated to start in 2026.Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...
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See also
*Sunoco
Sunoco LP is an American master limited partnership organized under Delaware General Corporation Law, Delaware state law and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Dating back to 1886, the company has transformed from a vertically integrated energy ...
References
External links
Business Wire
Rice Owls women's basketball players
Rice University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Living people
Sunoco LP people
American women chief executives
American chairpersons of corporations
American women corporate directors
Shell plc people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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